A fellow lefty! Holding it in my right hand feels like I’m trying to spin with someone else’s fingers.

I read that the distaff was usually held in the non-dominant hand - tried that and nope. Gonna have to be a little anachronistic there because my dominant hand is my drafting hand. And then there’s the added challenge of learning how to dress a distaff in a functional way.

It’s such a cool technique! I’m still working the kinks out because it’s a very different way to draft for me, but I try to do a little each day.

The detachable bottom whorl spindle is the traditional type for Medieval in-hand spinning! It’s a fun technique, you build your single hand to hand instead of letting the spindle drop with the single building above it.

Do you spin in hand with this spindle or use another method?